ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY.
NEW SECRETARY APPOINTED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 21, Mr George Pilcher, M.P., has been appointed secretary of the Royal Empire Society, in succession to Sir George M. Boughey, who resigned last month after holding the position since 1919, Mr Pilcher, who represents the Penryn and Falmouth Divisions of Cornwall, has been in Parliament since 1924. During that time he has served continuously on the Joint Committee of the two Houses on Indian Affairs, and from 1925 to 1927 he was Secretary of the Commercial Committee of the House of Commons. In that capacity he organised the International Parliamentary Commercial ' Conference held at Westminster in 1020. Ho was chairman of the committee’s delegation to Brasil in 1927, and in 1928 was selected as a member and secretary of the House of Commons All Party delegation to Canada under Lord Peel’s chairmanship. Mr Pilcher has spoken regularly in the House of Commons* on Imperial affairs. He has travelled extensively, and is a keen exponent of the value of inter-Empire trade. He is an Oxford graduate and a barrister of the Inner Temple.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20708, 4 May 1929, Page 11
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